Jeffrey Neul, MD, PhD
Vanderbilt University
Profile
About the Speaker: Jeffrey Neul received his medical degree and PhD in developmental biology from the University of Chicago. He subsequently then completed child neurology residency at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, during which time he became involved in both clinical care and research in Rett syndrome as well as conducting basic/translational work on Rett syndrome in the laboratory of Huda Zoghbi. He served as the Division Chief of Child Neurology at the University of California, San Diego, prior to assuming his current position as the Director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center and the Annette Shaffer Eskind Professor of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Dr. Neul’s research is focused on Rett syndrome and related genetically-based neurodevelopmental disorders and integrates laboratory-based exploration of disease mechanisms, biomarker discovery, and preclinical therapy evaluation with clinical research including longitudinal natural history studies, development of outcome measures and biomarkers, and clinical trials of novel therapeutic approaches to Rett syndrome.
For Further Information, Contact: Clark Kellogg at kellogg@waisman.wisc.edu
The seminar series is funded by the John D. Wiley Conference Center Fund, the Friends of the Waisman Center and Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) grant P50HD105353.
